Visualizing to Integrate Science Understanding for All Learners (VISUAL)

This project is exploring how curricula and assessment using dynamic, interactive scientific visualizations of complex phenomena can ensure that all students learn significant science content. Dynamic visualizations provide an alternative pathway for students to understand science concepts, which can be exploited to increase the accessibility of a range of important science concepts. Computer technologies offer unprecedented opportunities to design curricula and assessments using visual technologies and to explore them in research, teaching, and learning.

Project Evaluator
Paul Holland
Project URL
http://TELSCenter.org
PROJECT KEYWORDS
Target Audience
Middle School
High School
Post-secondary
Students
Teachers
Project Focus
Biology
Chemistry
Computer Science
Earth/Environmental Science
Physics
Science
Assessment
Educational Technology
Technology
Instructional Practice
Teacher Content Knowledge
Project Type
Experimental
Mixed Methods
Qualitative
Quasi-experimental
Student Outcomes
Products
Activity
Instrument

Project Materials

Title Type Post date
Evidence for Effective uses of Dynamic Visualisations in Science Curriculum Materials Resource
Integrating Innovative Technologies in Inquiry Science: Professional Development for Teachers and the Impacts on Teacher and Student Learning (Dorsey, Linn, Ryoo, Gerard) Resource
Visualizing to Integrate Science Understanding for All Learners (VISUAL) Poster
Agreeing to Disagree: Challenges with Ambiguity in Visual Evidence Resource
Can Generating Representations Enhance Learning With Dynamic Visualizations? Resource
Using Interactive Technology to Support Students’ Understanding of the Greenhouse Effect and Global Warming Resource
Enhancing the Authenticity of a Web-Based Module for Teaching Simple Inheritance Resource
A Design-based Approach to Fostering Understanding of Global Climate Change Resource
A Technology-Enhanced Unit of Modeling Static Electricity: Integrating scientific explanations and everyday observations Resource
Collaboration as Scaffolding to Learn from Dynamic, Interactive Scientific Visualizations Resource
School Principals’ Influence on Science Teachers’ Technology Implementation: A Retrospective Analysis Resource
Investigations of a Complex, Realistic Task: Intentional, Unsystematic, and Exhaustive Experimenters Resource
Measuring Knowledge Integration: Validation of Four-Year Assessments Resource
An Investigation of Explanation Multiple-Choice Items in Science Assessment Resource
Combining Learning and Assessment to Improve Science Education Resource
College Students’ Temporal-Magnitude Recognition Ability Associated With Durations of Scientific Changes Resource
Teaching to design educational technologies Resource
Bridging Multiple Expertise in Collaborative Design for Technology-Enhanced Learning Resource
Researching design practices and design cognition: contexts, experiences and pedagogical knowledge-in-pieces. Resource
Professional Development for Technology- Enhanced Inquiry Science Resource